Desperate Measures.

Obama asks octogenarian - Buffett, for advice. What are the rest of his economic advisers doing? Crying Mulligan?

Wonder what Obama cried out to this man: "I've fallen and I can't get up?"

On a serious note: check your wallets because the looters are everywhere and they want everything.

Oh, Oh. Skynet is Born.

A new type of computer chip that is designed to mimic the human brain is being developed by IBM, for the military.

What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110818/full/news.2011.486.html

Riots 2011: London and Elsewhere.

If you're wondering why London is burning and why there are flash mobs terrorizing the inhabitants of Philadelphia, follow the links below to some very insightful authors who understand why we're subjected to this violence. On the other hand, you can turn to the MSM and Dr. Phils out there, who will fill your head with obfuscating crap.

It's not about unemployment and lack of benefits for the poor. It's about a society being paralyzed by delusional ideologies and no longer capable of defending itself. It's about people who never earned or worked for anything, throwing temper tantrums and taking whatever they can get their hands on. It's about humiliating someone in order to achieve something. These are the looters. They cannot produce or create anything. They can only steal.

The state has left you defenseless and victimized. What are you going to do now? Who will you ask for help? Who cares about you or your problems? You're on your own.

First, is a post by Sultan Knish titled "Civilization's End". I came by this excellent read via The Western Rifle Shooters blog.

Next, I came across a Gates Of Vienna link to the latest rant by Pat Condell, called The Root Cause. As always, he is wise and clear to the point.

Zerohedge, had a post with the following quote:

"But brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what causes badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick."--Clockwork Orange

That is about the best description I have seen, of what incapacitates the Western "civilized" sheep.

As to how all this ties in with local politics:

You're on your own.

Idiocracy.

Bret Stephens of the WSJ summarizes Obama: "Stupid is as stupid does.", and many folks seek to blame Obama for the financial mess we're in. That is an incorrect approach. Our nation's woes are not the result of Obama's mental inadequacy. Rather, having Obama elected as our president is representative of our own stupidity. If we were a nation of clear headed and independent thinkers, Obama would have remained irrelevant. Our credit rating was down graded to AA+, but our nation's intellectual ability should be a D.

When I consider what it will take to rehabilitate this nation, I start to wonder whether it is even remotely possible. Nevertheless, we must work at this rehabilitation because our children deserve better.

In the spirit of president Camacho, here is my 3 step solution.

1. Abolish governmental bodies that stifle personal and financial growth.

- There may have been a time when small proprietary schools turned out mediocre graduates, and these schools needed to be combined into larger institutions so that the students would have access to quality teachers, and so that schools would have the resources for supplying their students with high quality education. Now, our educational system has become a humongous monster that does nothing but eat everything in sight just to maintain itself. Its teachers' only mission is to feed the monster, and they train sheep to be sheared or slaughtered.

- The Federal reserve main task is to weaken our monetary notes. Consequently what I receive for my work constantly depreciates, and cannot be counted on as a stable system of exchange of valuable goods. Solution - create a hard value backed currency; resume either a gold or silver standard.

2. Promote a society that values personal responsibility.

Enough with the handouts and promoting of the lazy and the inept. Stop supporting race based inequality laws. Strict "idiot proof" institutional guidelines mainly insure that idiots rise to management positions and lead to further idiotic guidelines.

3. Abolish laws that seek to blur the difference between fantasy and reality.

A gay couple is not the equivalent family unit to a family made of complementary sexes. It is not a biological equivalent, not a social equivalent, and it is not a theological equivalent. On a similar note, going to bed with a prostitute is not the same as being with your spouse. I have no problems with two people who want to engage in make believe sexual acts that brings them pleasure. But stop stuffing down my throat the notion that their delusional fantasies will produce anything other than another delusional fantasy. As was mentioned in Monty Python's Life of O'Brian, men can fight for their right to become pregnant but it's a pointless battle.

In the UN, we should stop treating every tin pot dictatorship as if its views and wants deserve the same weight as a modern democratic industrial nation. They are not equals and if we cannot respect that reality, then abolish the UN and create a body just for the world's democracies to participate in. I honestly don't give a rat's ass what a Syrian or Lybian dictator's definition of human rights is. It is wrong to elevate their opinions to those of the representative republics from the civilized world. In other words, not every culture is equal.

Collapse of the Global Ponzi Scheme!

I am not a psychiatrist, but on occasion I take care of psychotic patients with medical problems. Today I was passing by the room of one such patient, who was laying completely exposed and laughing like a maniac. The television by his bed was turned on, and I saw that the Dow Jones plummeted 512 points. Suddenly, his behavior seemed perfectly appropriate and, under these circumstances, quite sane.

Market Holiday Coming Bitchez!

What was this debt deal designed to accomplish??? Stabilize something???

THE CUMULATIVE LOSS IS NOW WELL NORTH OF $1 TRILLION AND MAY BE AS HIGH AS $1.5 TRILLION DESPITE DOING EXACTLY WHAT BOTH CONGRESS AND OBAMA SAID WAS ESSENTIAL TO STOP IT.

Hope you enjoyed your birthday cake, jackass!

Recovery Update #2.

Market down 280 today. That's some recovery.

Summer of Recovery. Updated.

From the WSJ:

"The U.S. manufacturing sector slowed sharply in May, according to ISM data. Meanwhile, private businesses added just 38,000 jobs in May, ADP reported, as large companies cut workers."

Today, from 10 to 11 am, Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 150 points. Gold went vertically up because many believe that fiats now have less value than they did 1 hour ago. There is talk about QE3 because right now the only thing keeping US alive is its ability to print dollars. It is also the same policy that is killing us. Weird huh.

Our productive industries are decimated. Thanks Obama for all that hope and shit.

By the time I finished writing this paragraph, Dow Jones went down another 30 points to a net down of 180.

(Update) Below is an apartment complex where Obama got his organizing experience. Read the article here.